4 July 2008
Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera
Posted by Miroslav under: Graphic Design .
Ran across this great site while researching the boat that my father traveled to Australia on (the SS Toscana from the Lloyd Triestino line) and thought i should share :)
Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera
This is a virtual online gallery I’ve created to display and share the best items in my collection of 1920s and 1930s travel-related ephemera. It is not my whole collection, just a portion.
My basic passion is paper items such as travel brochures, airline time-tables, ocean liner time-tables, auto road maps, luggage labels, advertising, and graphic design publications from the 1920s and 1930s, primarily in Europe but also Asia and, to a small degree, the U.S.A.
Some, well actually all of the stuff on display at the site is spectacular :D
Here are my favourite’s from each category to tempt you to visit :)
Advertising
Advertisement for “Philips – Eclairage Radiophonie,” circa 1932
Airlines
Luggage label for Deruluft Airlines (Deutsch-Russische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft), circa 1930.
Asia
Luggage label for the “Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan,” circa 1935. The architect of the hotel was Frank Lloyd Wright.
Austria
Travel brochure “Austria,” 1932.
Automotive
Brochure for the “Deutsche Verkehrausstellung München 1925 Juni – Oktober” (German Transportation Exhibition), 1925.
Benelux
Travel brochure “Luxembourg,” 1936.
France
Timetable “‘Nord-Express’ – Calais – Bruxelles – Pullman – Express,” 1927.
Germany
Travel brochure “Berlin Central-Hotel,” 1936.
Graphic Design Journals
Brochure for “Modiano.” Designed by “Robert Berény.” From “Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik,” Heft 10, 1930.
Hungary
Travel brochure for the auto route Wien-Budapest (Vienna-Budapest), circa 1930.
Italy
Travel brochure for the Dolmoti. Published circa 1933 by the Ente Nazionale Industrie Turistische (ENIT – Italian State Tourist Department) and the Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian State Railway).
Nautical
Travel brochure “Lloyd Triestino – Australie,” 1938.
Russia
Travel brochure “Europe-Perse à Travers l’URSS,” circa 1933.
Switzerland
La Ligne Electrique du Simplon, circa 1935.
Yugoslavia
Travel brochure for the Jadranska Plovidba D.D. “Sušak.” “Express-Tourist Services from Venice to Dalmatia Summer 1937.”
Now go and visit the site and check out all the other cool stuff he has :)
One Comment so far...
Martrese Says:
1 August 2008 at 2:01 am.
GORGEOUS! One of my favorite design styles. Thanks for compiling.
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